false <![CDATA[Blood Colony: A Novel]]> 2391371 2 Acclaimed for seven novels, ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, which have garnered her a multitude of fans and awards, Tananarive Due now imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals -- a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years -- facing one of the most challenging issues of our time: the AIDS/HIV pandemic.<P>There's a new drug on the street: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, it is distributed by an Underground Railroad of drug peddlers. But what gives Glow its power? Its main ingredient is blood -- the blood of immortals. A small but powerful colony of immortals is distributing the blood, slowly wiping out the AIDS epidemic and other diseases around the world. <P>Meet Fana Wolde, seventeen years old, the only immortal born with the Living Blood. She can read minds, and her injuries heal immediately. When her best friend, a mortal, is imprisoned by Fana's family, Fana helps her escape -- and together they run away from Fana's protected home in Washington State to join the Underground Railroad. <P>But Fana has more than her parents to worry about: Glow peddlers are being murdered by a violent, hundred-year-old sect with ties to the Vatican. Now, when Fana is most vulnerable, she is being hunted to fulfill an ancient blood prophecy that could lead to countless deaths.<P>While her people search for Fana and race to unravel the unknown sect's mysterious origins, Fana must learn to confront the deadly forces -- or she and everyone she loves will die. 2398383 3 6 2008 Blood Colony: A Novel total:99|5:24|4:33|3:24|2:15|1:3| 99 357 200 25 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 11 13:37:40 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 13:37:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 09:00:08 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 21:14:59 -0700 2009 once Blood Colony, Tananarive Due plops a mysterious sect into the latest drama surrounding involving the blood of Jesus and jumps 14 years into the not-too-distant future 17-year-old Fana -- introduced in as a 3-years-old in The Living Blood -- is part of an underground movement to heal the sick.
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I still love reading Ms. Due's writing. Her fiction is easier to plow through simply because it is fiction and doesn't generate the same contextual thought processes as nonfiction. Each are equally we...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 13 15:30:04 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 15:31:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 11:13:04 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 11:51:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 07:04:07 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 07:24:26 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 09 17:22:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 14 09:09:28 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2391371